Mick's Stockish '68

[Jesus_man]

Oh yeah! Great look!

[mickphatmac]

Dropped the tank and installed a brand new sending unit, THANKYOU Eck!!! I Can watch my fuel disappear on the gauge in real time now!

Unbolted the top and dropped the windshield so I could put the hood latch U-bolt on the new to me hood.

Got rid of my garbage dash pad and installed a used (of course) ‘66 Dash pad in Fine condition!

Added more ‘70’s goodies to the Rig on the side windows of the top, old sliders from Grand Junction!

And finally we installed a brand new windshield with new rubber!!

[Jesus_man]

I like the sliding window!! It's all looking nice!

[mickphatmac]

A BIG THANKS to Phil and Jeremy, ThankYou for hooking me up!!!
I didn’t make “The Breakfast” but I did get my tie rods and drag link and new power steering gear in and bled!!

Jeremy, you were right, lots of reaming, about that whole castle nut is how far it had to come down!!!

... hitting the alignment shop next Tuesday

Brand new adjustable tie rod, adjustable drag link, Viper built power steering gear, and Viper pitman arm!!!

[casadejohnson]

Looks like the pitman arm could use a little bend to line up with TRE. If you bring it over we can take the torch to it and get it done. When the angles don't line up well they tend to eat the boot pretty quickly.

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[mickphatmac]

Stock White steel going to Blue Ranger style :) making me smile!!
Front seats to follow!!

[mickphatmac]

More fun,
I bought a new to me engine, a ‘79 302 and I’m putting Edelbrock aluminum E-Street heads on it I’m going with the FiTech EFI system.

C4 out for a rebuild

and in typical Bronco fashion, the Dana 20 is out so sure what the heck, let’s rebuild it too

Front seats are finally being recovered so once that’s done, with any luck I’ll have a pretty sweet daily driver on my hands
A++ to my pit crew…CAM the RAM!!! ThankYou BUB!!

[mickphatmac]

My ‘68
‘66
Stroppe
Ranger is coming together nicely…

[Rox Crusher]

You got it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost you a dime ?

[mickphatmac]

More shiny parts finally getting installed, rebuilt 302 with Edelbrock E-Street aluminum heads with roller rockers, Shiny new Viperwolf1 Trans C4/Dana 20 THANKYOU PHIL!!! and James Duff 2 into 1 Exhaust system that fits Perfectly!! Start up next Tues!!

[Jesus_man]

Ahh man! That looks great!

[Viperwolf1]

Is it working yet?

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[mickphatmac]

Yep! It’s alive and kickin’
Had the carburetor on it for the engine break in and now I’m trying to finish up the EFI swap and get that dialed in before Tuesday…Lord help me!!!

[mickphatmac]

For those of you who don’t know me, I don’t pay anybody to work on my Bronco because they charge too much and you never get what you pay for!!

I would rather do something three times and screw it up while learning how to do it right than to fork out extra cash and not learn anything.

…..well played ‘68! Shame on you shame on me all that crap, tired of Effing with this transmission, I’ve installed two different transmissions three different times and I just wanna blow the damn thing up!!

I think for its punishment when I get it back, I will make it my vendetta to always park it next to a Jeep!!

[Jesus_man]

Oh no!! What are we dealing with here, a slushbox c4?

[mickphatmac]

Verdict from the trans shop was Wrong Flex Plate. Burnt through all 3 foreward gears. Right amount of teeth, just wrong design. Something about the Bowl or recessed part was pulling the Torque Converter out too far.

Any whooo, it's alive and kicking.... sorta. working on EFI now!

[Jesus_man]

That's good news!

[D&D72]

awesome!

[mickphatmac]

I’m getting pretty good at finding and buying but not so good at keeping them running or selling them

[mickphatmac]

………

[mickphatmac]

…. See what I mean!!!

[Jesus_man]

Hey, if you got the means...